{"id":350796,"date":"2018-03-04T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-must-denuke-before-us-talks\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T16:59:58","slug":"north-korea-must-denuke-before-us-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-must-denuke-before-us-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea must \u2018denuke\u2019 before US talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump says his administration will sit down for negotiations with North Korea only if Pyongyang agrees to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC, Trump said North Korean leaders had contacted the White House for talks on de-escalating the ongoing tensions between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we are talking and they &#8230; called up a couple of days ago. They said that \u2018we would like to talk.\u2019 And I said, \u2018So would we, but you have to denuke, you have to denuke,\u2019\u201d Trump was quoted as saying by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said he would not rule out the possibility of a meeting with North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un, whom he has previously called a \u201cmadman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be meeting and we\u2019ll see if anything positive happens,\u201d he said. \u201cAs far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that\u2019s his [Kim\u2019s] problem not mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also joked&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/04\/554353\/US-Trump-North-Korea-denuclearization-Kim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump says his administration will sit down for negotiations with North Korea only if Pyongyang agrees to eliminate its nuclear arsenal. Speaking on Saturday at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC, Trump said North Korean leaders had contacted the White House for talks on de-escalating the ongoing tensions between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}